Joel Silverman

Joel Silverman is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and several other states and has over 45 years of experience as both a contractor / construction manager and consultant. He was an Associate Professor of Real Estate Development teaching Construction Management and Technology at Columbia University. He was also the president of HRH Construction Corporation in New York and was responsible for the construction management of projects such as the Javits Convention Center, the Rockefeller Research building at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and more than 14 million square feet of high rise commercial, mixed use, residential, hotel, and health related facilities.

Since 1999, Silverman has been president of Silverman & Associates, a firm providing full-service owner’s representation and construction consulting services for private and institutional clients such as the G.E. Pension Trust, NYU, Princeton University, the Georgetown Company, Hines, Related, Bloomberg, IAC / Interactive Corp, and Time Warner. Silverman has taught at Cooper Union, has appeared in several Public Television documentaries about the Empire State Building, and also guest lectures on construction related topics for the School of Architecture at Cornell.